Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941)
Thomas Edison's company.
Birth and education
was an early film pioneer, most famous as a director with
Thomas Edison's company. Born ---------- April 21, 1870
Connellsville, Pennsylvani
Died ---------- April 30, 1941 (aged 71)
New York City
Parents-------Thomas Richard Porter
Mary Jane Clark
Edwin Porter was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Thomas Richard Porter, a merchant, and Mary Jane (Clark) Porter; he had three brothers and one sister. After attending public schools in Connellsville and Pittsburgh,Porter worked, among other odd jobs, as an exhibition skater, a sign painter, and a telegraph operator.
Early career
He was employed for a time in the electrical department of William Cramp & Sons, a Philadelphia ship and
engine building company, and in 1893 enlisted in the United States Navy as an electrician. During his three
years' service he showed aptitude as an inventor of electrical devices to improve communications.
Porter entered motion picture work in 1896, the first year movies were commercially projected on large
screens in the United States. He was briefly employed in New York City by Raff & Gammon, agents for the
films and viewing equipment made by Thomas Edison, and then left to become a touring projectionist with a
competing machine, Kuhn & Webster's Projectorscope. He traveled through the West Indies and South
America, showing films at fairgrounds and in open fields, and later made a second tour through Canada and
the United States. Returning to New York, he worked as a projectionist and attempted, unsuccessfully, to set
up a manufacturing concern for motion picture cameras and projectors.
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